What diseases have animal tests helped cure? Will the US follow the EU?!
Question: I've found a plethora of reasons animal testing are invalid, misleading and unnecessary. I've learned that they do not only harm and kill animals, but they harm and kill humans who use products that were deemed "safe" for animals- animals are just plain different than humans, we react differently.
1. I am wondering what good animal testing has done- what diseases it has cured? I know thousands and thousands of diseases and illnesses have been given and then cured in ANIMALS, but have not been able to be applied to humans.
2. My other question is whether you think the US will follow the European Union's example and outlaw all animal testing for the reasons I discussed above?
Answers: I've found a plethora of reasons animal testing are invalid, misleading and unnecessary. I've learned that they do not only harm and kill animals, but they harm and kill humans who use products that were deemed "safe" for animals- animals are just plain different than humans, we react differently.
1. I am wondering what good animal testing has done- what diseases it has cured? I know thousands and thousands of diseases and illnesses have been given and then cured in ANIMALS, but have not been able to be applied to humans.
2. My other question is whether you think the US will follow the European Union's example and outlaw all animal testing for the reasons I discussed above?
Honestly no disease have been cured due to animal testing. Many of the most important advances in the field of health care can be attributed to human studies, which have led to major medical breakthroughs, such as the development of anesthesia, the stethoscope, morphine, radium, penicillin, artificial respiration, x-rays, antiseptics, and CAT, MRI, and PET scans; the study of bacteriology and germ theory; the discovery of the link between cholesterol and heart disease and the link between smoking and cancer; and the isolation of the virus that causes AIDS. Animal testing played no role in these or many other important medical developments.
In fact, two separate bodies of work were done on polio: the in vitro work, which was awarded the Nobel Prize and did not involve animals, and the animal tests, in which a staggering number of animals were killed. Nobel Laureate Arthur Kornberg noted that for 40 years, experiments on monkeys who had been infected with polio generated